• Cyborganism
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    203 months ago

    For me is the “Get the reefill app” part that gets me. Like why do you need an app for that?

    • @[email protected]
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      43 months ago

      That’s why I’ve stopped eating fast food almost co oletely. I won’t install their app to get any of their “deals”, and they’ve all jacked up their prices to the point that it’s just not worth it without them…

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        Fuckin’ tell me about it.

        I once downloaded the Maccas app, and they insisted I let them track my location at all times so they can “tell me where my newest restaurant is”

        I know where my nearest fuckin’ maccas is. I also have a map. Instant delete.

      • Cyborganism
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        33 months ago

        I had a Big Mac a few months ago last year. There’s nothing “big” about the Mac anymore.

  • @[email protected]
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    833 months ago

    You would think all the data they steal from you when you install the app would be payment enough

    • @[email protected]
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      353 months ago

      My theory is that the new method for data vacuuming is charging a benignly small fee to make it appear that you’re paying for a service and not getting raided, as opposed to using a free service where you assume they’re harvesting you like an apple tree.

    • Chemical WonkaOP
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      183 months ago

      Exactly!

      Interestingly, I was looking for this right now and realized that they don’t have an app for Android and I couldn’t get the information that the App Store offers about the app’s permissions (probably invasive), not to mention that it probably has to connect to several dubious servers to upload data it collects from the user. I say it because I know how this business model works.

      • just some guy
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        123 months ago

        I was going to look it up and share but I think they went under. No app on iOS either and the URL takes you to a wix placeholder page

        • @[email protected]
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          223 months ago

          How dare you make accusations like that! What do you think people just go on the internet and lie?!

            • 97xBam
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              23 months ago

              I was there when he told me, a stranger he met at the Applebee’s Bar that night after he was hitting on my 8-month pregnant wife then tried to pretend he wasn’t after she introduced me to him as her husband, the story while he was drunk.

    • 97xBam
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      43 months ago

      Reminds me of when I saw a Mountain Spring Water filling station ornamented with a picture of a snow-capped mountain at a Wal-Mart about 500 miles from the nearest mountain and nearly 2k miles from the nearest snow-capped mountain. The thing had pipes out the back going into the wall. That was straight city water that maybe that dispenser filtered a little more if it was properly maintained.

  • Ech
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    323 months ago

    We are so close to these fuckers selling clean, healthy air as the world suffocates.

    • @[email protected]
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      33 months ago

      "They have monopolized everything that it is possible to monopolize; they have got the whole earth, the minerals in the earth and the streams that water the earth. The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is not possible to do it. If it were possible to construct huge gasometers and to draw together and compress within them the whole of the atmosphere, it would have been done long ago, and we should have been compelled to work for them in order to get money to buy air to breathe. And if that seemingly impossible thing were accomplished tomorrow, you would see thousands of people dying for want of air – or of the money to buy it – even as now thousands are dying for want of the other necessities of life. You would see people going about gasping for breath, and telling each other that the likes of them could not expect to have air to breathe unless the had the money to pay for it. Most of you here, for instance, would think and say so. Even as you think at present that it’s right for so few people to own the Earth, the Minerals and the Water, which are all just as necessary as is the air. In exactly the same spirit as you now say: “It’s Their Land,” “It’s Their Water,” “It’s Their Coal,” “It’s Their Iron,” so you would say “It’s Their Air,” “These are their gasometers, and what right have the likes of us to expect them to allow us to breathe for nothing?” And even while he is doing this the air monopolist will be preaching sermons on the Brotherhood of Man; he will be dispensing advice on “Christian Duty” in the Sunday magazines; he will give utterance to numerous more or less moral maxims for the guidance of the young. And meantime, all around, people will be dying for want of some of the air that he will have bottled up in his gasometers. And when you are all dragging out a miserable existence, gasping for breath or dying for want of air, if one of your number suggests smashing a hole in the side of one of the gasometers, you will all fall upon him in the name of law and order, and after doing your best to tear him limb from limb, you’ll drag him, covered with blood, in triumph to the nearest Police Station and deliver him up to “justice” in the hope of being given a few half-pounds of air for your trouble.’

      Robert Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered Philathropists (1914) | Ch 15
      
    • @[email protected]
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      133 months ago

      “You’ll have to buy the air from us!”

      “No thanks.”

      “But you’ll die.”

      “Byeeeeeeee”

  • @[email protected]
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    383 months ago

    “Reefill” sounds like something out of a wojak meme.

    “I’m reefilling my water bottle with mineral water from 1000m deep!” - the reefiller wojak

    • @[email protected]
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      83 months ago

      It more sounds like you’re making fun of their intelligence: oh, you’re going for a REEEEEfill?

  • @[email protected]
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    93 months ago

    Want $0.25 in your account monthly?

    Introducing sink water! It has been treated with hand sanitizer, soaps, human waste including semen parts, shed skin particles, mucus, dandruff, sweat, spit, ear wax, blood, pee, and feces!

  • @[email protected]
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    583 months ago

    Sweet Jesus I didn’t even notice that it’s a subscription. I abhor vandalism but this shit needs to be spraypainted yesterday.

    • @[email protected]
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      373 months ago

      Spray paint? Fill cup with shitty water, poke hole in bottom of cup, place cup over expensive water button, let the water and circuitry settle their differences.

      Dystopian tech needs to be destroyed, not defaced.

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        this machine is likely waterproofed, for obvious reasons